# Buy Your Friends > A browser-based social tycoon game where public X profiles become characters in a shared player marketplace. Buy Your Friends lets players buy friends with fictional points, seat them in businesses, earn recurring income, upgrade their roster and compete through a live market. Points and LLC cash have no real-world monetary value. ## Primary pages - [Play Buy Your Friends](https://buyyourfriends.com/): The live game. - [How the game works](https://buyyourfriends.com/about): Public rules, systems and account-data explanation. - [How to play](https://buyyourfriends.com/how-to-play): Beginner's guide, strategy tips and FAQ. - [Updates](https://buyyourfriends.com/updates): Patch notes and event announcements. - [Contact](https://buyyourfriends.com/contact): Support, privacy requests and business inquiries (Bruce@tenacie.com). - [View-only main game](https://buyyourfriends.com/game-preview): Crawlable rendering of the core market, boards and game loop using fictional data. - [View-only Halloween event](https://buyyourfriends.com/halloween-preview): Crawlable rendering of the Cursed Market and Halloween mechanics using fictional data. - [Privacy policy](https://buyyourfriends.com/privacy): What account and game data is used. - [Terms of service](https://buyyourfriends.com/terms): Rules governing use of the game. - [Full crawler reference](https://buyyourfriends.com/llms-full.txt): Extended product context for language models. ## Important facts - The game uses fictional in-game balances only. - X OAuth supplies the player's public username, display name and profile image; the game does not request or store the player's X email address. - Profile images may be cached for reliable display. - Private APIs, sessions, player balances and authentication data are not public crawler resources.